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Twitch suspends Donald Trump’s channel for “hateful conduct"Somehow, 2020 can still surprise me
Somehow, 2020 can still surprise me
The president of the United States of America has been temporarily banned from video game streaming platform Twitch, is an actual event in the year of our Molyneux 2020. Donald Trump’s official account had rebroadcast old campaign speeches, which Twitch moderators identify as containing “hateful conduct.” So the account is on time-out to… think about what it’s done? Of all the channels on Twitch, this seems the least likely to reform its behaviour. Somehow, 2020 still has the capacity to surprise me.
Twitch must be quite keen to clean up their image right now. After years of their lax attitude towards sexual harrassment on the platform, the past fortnight has brought hundreds of accusations of harrassment, sexual abuse, and predatory behaviour against Twitch streamers. Twitch areinvestigating claimsand punishing with bans. A number ofgame developersand games media have faced accusations too.
